SESSION OF 1836-7. 
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It is probable that the horses used in agriculture increased in 
number when the tax was withdrawn, and that during the agri- 
cultural tax many more horses of small size, and for various pur- 
poses, were kept; and we shall not be far from the truth if we 
average the whole number of horses at about 1,340,000. But 
this does not include stage-coach, mail-coach, and hackney- 
coach horses, nor those used in posting : these may be reckoned 
at 125,000. To these must also be added young horses, for they 
are not taxed until they are used for drawing or riding ; and if 
we average the age of the horse at eight years (and that, perhaps, 
is over the mark), they will be nearly 200,000. Then there is 
roguery in all things, and a great number of horses were not 
taxed at all. A glance at the number of those which are said 
to be let for hire in England and Wales, will speak volumes with 
regard to this. If we suppose that there are 35,000 that are in 
this predicament, or that do not rank under any of the divisions 
in the table, we may safely calculate “ the total number of horses 
employed in Great Britain” at 1,700,000. To this must be added 
the Scottish and Irish horses. Y. 
THE VETERINARIAN, DECEMBER \, 1836. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid vcri non audeat. — Cicero. 
On the 14th ult. the session of 1836-7, commenced at the 
Veterinary College at St. Pancras. The Professor appeared 
to be fully as well as at the close of the last session, and 
lectured during more than an hour and a half, disdaining the 
chair on which he used to recline. The theatre was crowded to 
excess by those who came to pay their respects to their old 
master, and by others who were anxious to hear what he would 
say with regard to the late dissensions. The Professor repeated 
his usual lecture on the natural history of the horse, so far as 
connected with veterinary practice. He then, at greater length, 
and with stronger emphasis than he had adopted during many a 
year, protested against the evils and the dangers of comparative 
anatomy ; for, different as was the structure of the various organs 
in animals and in man, and varying as they did in the numerous 
classes of animals, the student might be misled by analogy, but 
could never arrive at any legitimate or useful conclusion ; and 
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